{"id":204364,"date":"2026-03-04T20:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T20:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/204364\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T20:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T20:17:09","slug":"golden-thread-marks-30-years-of-art-from-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/204364\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Thread marks 30 years of art from the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This interview aired in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kalw.org\/podcast\/crosscurrents\/2026-03-04\/celebrating-the-power-of-women\" class=\"Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 4, 2026 episode of Crosscurrents. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>            Click the button above to listen.<\/p>\n<p>Women\u2019s History Month has begun and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/observances\/womens-day\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">International Women\u2019s Day<\/a> is this Sunday. Women around the world will be celebrated and celebrating. The UN theme this year is \u201cRights. Justice. Action. For ALL Women and Girls\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here in the Bay Area, there is no shortage of events marking the day. One is the annual &#8220;What Do the Women Say?&#8221; An extravaganza of women\u2019s performance held every year for the past 30 years by Golden Thread Productions that features Middle Eastern and North African artists.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re marking their 30th year with a show that has music, song, poetry and plays- and dedicating it to the women of Iran. To learn more about the event, Hana Baba, host of KALW&#8217;s Crosscurrents, talked to their brand new artistic director Nabra Nelson, who is a playwright herself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This interview aired in the March 4, 2026 episode of Crosscurrents. Click the button above to listen. Women\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-204364","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-san-francisco","9":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","10":"tag-san-francisco-news","11":"tag-sf","12":"tag-sf-headlines","13":"tag-sf-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}